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It's annoying, especially when you've searched for something and found what looks like perfect site. At least description exactly matches your needs. You click and boom, a 404 error appears. Whoops. What happened to that perfect site?

There are several reasons why this error occurs. I guess thing that you need to remember is internet is very fluid. In fact, it changes constantly. Sometimes a site is changing while you are looking at it. I can remember several times I was examining a site and returned to a page that I had seen only moments before and found it to be different! That can be very unnerving, to say least.

So what sometimes happens is a webmaster changes his site around and obsoletes links. If he's a rank amateur, he'll break links within his own site. This does happen sometimes, but any webmaster worth his salt is constantly checking and rechecking his site to be sure it works and works well. After all, only way to test something is to use it. And only way to see if a site really works is to surf it.

More often, someone has linked to a site and that site changes. Since it can be difficult if not impossible to determine who has linked to a site, links break.

Now, really good webmasters never ever delete a page on their site. What they do is create redirect pages. Thus, if I have a page called "barbi.htm" and I want to delete it, I will modify page to tell visitor it no longer exists and redirect him to another page in my site. This way I will not loose traffic simply because I've deleted or renamed a page.

New web browsers come with incredible features. For example, Netscape has Netshow and MSE has Net Meeting. Place at top of your monitor just a simple, inexpensive, camera (most likely you have already a microphone and speakers) and voila: you are equipped to conduct your own online tele-conferencing!

Can we chat (and more than that)? --------------------------------- As you perhaps know, I host and moderate a MasterMind Chat -- details at http://loska.com/successconnection/chat.html Since chatroom doesn't like Microsoft Explorer - causing constant scrolling of chat messages - I advice participants and guests to use Netscape. Quite often this creates a problem. Many people say "I don't have a Netscape because I prefer Internet Explorer..."

Chances are that with you just opposite is true. You might use Explorer, not Netscape, or Opera, or Lynx, or WebTV, or ... maybe you don't even know which of them you are using!

Either way, if you are serious about your Internet business, you better get used to idea of having more than one browser. Not because of my MasterMind Chat (although this alone may be a good reason -- among my guests were Ken Evoy, Marlon Sanders and Tony Blake, you can gain a lot from chatting with guys like that).

However, most important reason for using more browsers is your ability to see web pages way other visitors do.